Inventions in the CenturyLinscott publishing Company, 1903 - 495 páginas |
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... moved around or across the main or auxiliary shaft ; multiple cylinders , in which sev- eral cylinders , either single or double , are arranged to co - operate with a common shaft ; impact rotary , known as steam turbines , a revival in ...
... moved around or across the main or auxiliary shaft ; multiple cylinders , in which sev- eral cylinders , either single or double , are arranged to co - operate with a common shaft ; impact rotary , known as steam turbines , a revival in ...
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... moved , and the mighty tube rested alone and secure upon its massive wedge - faced piers rising from the bedrock of the flood below . The Tubular Arch Bridge . — This differs from the tubular bridge proper , in that the former consists ...
... moved , and the mighty tube rested alone and secure upon its massive wedge - faced piers rising from the bedrock of the flood below . The Tubular Arch Bridge . — This differs from the tubular bridge proper , in that the former consists ...
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... moved before the poles of the mag- net , the current was carried half the time in one direction and half in the other , constituting what is called an alternating current . Gramme employed the commutator to make the current direct ...
... moved before the poles of the mag- net , the current was carried half the time in one direction and half in the other , constituting what is called an alternating current . Gramme employed the commutator to make the current direct ...
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... moved to a wharf , capable of holding fifty thousand or one hundred thousand bushels of grain and having that amount poured into it in three hours from the spouts of an elevator , to which the grain has been carried in a myriad buckets ...
... moved to a wharf , capable of holding fifty thousand or one hundred thousand bushels of grain and having that amount poured into it in three hours from the spouts of an elevator , to which the grain has been carried in a myriad buckets ...
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... moved upon its way , to prevent rebounding , and to enable the carrier to be discharged with facility at the end of its route . Among the early mechanical means of transport- ing the carriage was an endless cable moved continu- ously by ...
... moved upon its way , to prevent rebounding , and to enable the carrier to be discharged with facility at the end of its route . Among the early mechanical means of transport- ing the carriage was an endless cable moved continu- ously by ...
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18th century adapted agricultural America ammonia ancient apparatus applied arquebus automatically beam Bessemer process blast breech-loading bridge cannon carbon carriage carried chamber chine coal colours compressed consisting constructed cotton Ctesibius cultivators cylinder developed devices discoveries eighteenth century electricity England feet field fire force frame fruit furnace gases grain hand heat Hero of Alexandria horse hundred hydraulic improvements inventions inventors iron James Watt Jethro Tull Joseph Bramah known labour lever light machine machinery magnet manufacture means mechanical ments metal mills modern mould board needle nineteenth century Oliver Evans operation paper patent percussion cap pipe piston plant plate plough pressure principle printing produced pump revolving rollers screw seed shaft soil spinning steam engine steel stone stove successful suspension bridge thread tion tricity tubes turned tury United valves vessel Watt wheel wire wood
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Página 431 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad...
Página 323 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Página 9 - Behold, a sower went forth to sow ; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up : some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth : and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth : and when the sun was up, they were scorched ; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns ; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them : but other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold,...
Página xx - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done : and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Página 66 - Amidst this company stood Mr Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination ; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert, affording the means of dispensing with that time and tide which wait for no man,...
Página 66 - ... beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth; giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite; commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert; affording the means of dispensing with that time and tide which wait for no man; and of sailing without that wind which defied the commands and threats of Xerxes himself.
Página xxvii - ... of business ; it has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind.
Página 77 - It is on the rivers, and the boatman may repose on his oars; it is on highways, and begins to exert itself along the courses of land conveyance; it is at the bottom of mines, a thousand feet below the earth's surface; it is in the mill, and in the workshops of the trades. It rows, it pumps, it excavates, it carries, it draws, it lifts, it hammers, it spins, it weaves, it prints. It...
Página 202 - Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want...
Página 77 - Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is capable of fitting a thousand times as many hands as belonged to Briareus. Steam is found in triumphant operation on the seas; and under the influence of its strong propulsion, the gallant ship, " Against the wind, against the tide, Still steadies, with an upright keel.